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Neither ethernet, nor WLAN was detected upon installation. I compiled the compat-wireless kernel modules and tried to load the ath9k.ko module. It did not help initially, as they were for the wrong kernel version. But after a reboot all network cards worked miraculously. It was probably “make unload” that had helped…

Try editing/adding “apci_backlight=vendor” to your grub configuration. It works for me on Ubuntu

James, 2010/05/30 23:22

i installed a fedora13 on my ul20a, but i found the brightness can not be changed, neither Fn+F5 nor power management…..cannot figure out why

teunis, 2010/05/11 13:39

This model doesn't have an Optical driveWith dd I made a bootable USB stick with openSUSE11.2.iso on it.In the BIOS I changed the boot sequence to First boot from [removable device]Unfortunately that did not work?How can I get openSUSE on my ASUS UL20A laptop?Any suggestions are appreciated

Teunis Middelkoop, 2010/05/20 20:15

I followed the instructions in http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CDto make a bootable USB stickA computer in the network I made a NFS server with the OpenSUSE 11.2 CD as a an exportin /media/CDROMAs resource for the installation I named the NFS exportAfter that OpenSUSE 11.2 was easily installed on the the Asus UL20A computer.Everything is working okay.The Wifi radio can easily be configured with KNetworkManager.The screen of the computer is to glossy. A minus that is seen in many laptops even from Apple.Teunis